My Poems Featured on NPR =)

Bodies are like poems.
A fraction of their power
resides in their skin.

The rest belongs
to the spirit
that swims through them.

Listen to it on boldNPR: https://www.npr.org/2012/04/19/150960150/egyptian-american-poet-bodies-are-like-poems

Spinning a word-shaped web
and waiting to catch
something of sustenance,
wrap it in silk
and ingest it,
so that I might dream again.

Hear it on boldNPR: https://www.npr.org/2013/04/04/176239051/listeners-tweet-their-poetry